The Analysis of Urban Legend Theme that 2012 Broadcasting Students Use when Making Film Project

Keywords

Film, Culture, and Urban Legend

Abstract

The film titled Jelangkung was released in 2001. Rizal Mantovani and Jose Poernomo were able to bring the theme urban legend up to the screen successfully with a modern twist. The tension in the film that they presented were not merely because of the ghost apparition, but also because of cameras’ motions, special effects, music and unfamiliar places to the audience. The theme of urban legend in films, afterwards, intruigued the authors’ interest because it is a very specific theme in which each region has different characteristics. The authors see that the filmJelangkung (2001) could be chosen as a reference by the young (to be) filmmakers when making their own films. In that retrospect, their films would still later on have the taste of ‘Indonesia’ in them but with modern twist. The 2012 Broadcasting students at Communication Studies are trained to make films. The purpose of this research is to understand how far the theme of urban legend is used by the students when making their crafts. The methodology of research that the authors used are focus group discussion, in-depth interviews and content analysis so that a valid data could be reached. Subsequently, the researchers would describe their findings through constructivism paradigm in order to aid lecturers (especially who teach Documentary Film Production) as well as future researchers.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Freddy Yusanto
AU  - Diah Agung Esfandari
PY  - 2017/11
DA  - 2017/11
TI  - The Analysis of Urban Legend Theme that 2012 Broadcasting Students Use when Making Film Project
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Transformation in Communications 2017 (IcoTiC 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 159
EP  - 162
SN  - 2352-5398
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